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T. G. BENNETT. BOX MAGAZINE FIREARM.

No 551,572. Patented Dec. 17, 1895.

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No. 551,572. Patented Dec, 17, 1895.

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THOMAS G. BENNETT, OF NE? HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE\VINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

BOX-MAGAZINE FIREARM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 551,572, dated December17, 1895.

Application filed August 24:, 1894. Serial No. 521,143. (No model.)

To (0 whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS G. BENNETT, of New Haven, in the county ofNew Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inBox-lfagazine Breech-Loading Firearms; and I do hereby declare thefollowing, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings andthe letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of thisspecification, and represent, in

Figure l, a view partly in elevation and partly in longitudinal sectionof a box-magazine breech-loading firearm eonstructed in accordance withmy invention, the parts being shown in their closed positions; Fig. 2, asimilar but less comprehensive view with the parts shown in their openpositions; Fig. 3, a view of the arm in transverse section on line 00 asof Fig. 1; Fig. 4:, a detached plan view of the box-magazine; Fig. 5, adetached side view of the abutment-block located in the forward end ofthe said magazine; Fig. 5, a view of the said block in front elevation;Fig. 6, a detached plan View of the finger or operating lever; Fig. 7,an under side view of the operating or base plate; Fig. 8, a detachedview in side elevation of the carrier-arm Fig. 9, a plan View thereof;Fi 10, a view in side elevation of the lifting-lever of the carrier;Fig. 11, a plan View thereof; Fig. 12, a detached view in rear elevationof the link F and the recoil-block G.

My invention relates to an improvement in that class ofmagazine-firearms which have box-magazines as distinguished from tubularmagazines, the object being to produce a simple, compact, convenient,and reliable arm, having comparatively few parts and not lia ble toderangement.

Vith these ends in view my invention consists in a breech-loadingbox-magazine firearm having certain details of construction andcombinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described, and pointed outin the claims.

As herein shown, the gun has a barrel. A, a receiver 13, a boxunagazineC, a longitudinally-movable breech-bolt D, a finger or operating leverE, and base or operating plate or link 'F, a looking or recoil block-G,a ham ing the box in place therein.

mer H, a trigger I, and other instrumentalities, as will be specificallydescribed later 011. The said box-magazine C is located in an oblongvertical slot formed in the receiver, and, as shown, it is adapted toreceive at one time five cartridges J, though it may be made to holdmore or less. Its body portion is formed of a single piece of sheetmetal bent into the required shape, its lower end being closed, itsupper end being open, its rear end being virtually closed by itsprovision at such point with flanges O C, which form abutments for theheads of the cartridges, and its forward end being provided with avertically-arranged abutment-block C details of which are shown in Figs.5 and 5, respectively.

The upper edges of the box are extended, as herein shown, to form twoinwardly-turned retaining-fingers c c,directly;in front of which thesaid edge is notched, as at o c, to clear the heads of the cartridges asthey emerge from under the said fingers and permit the said heads torise so that the cartridges may enter the gun-barrel in a horizontalline. The said box is provided at opposite points upon its sides withcorresponding outwardly-projecting hubs C C adapted in length to engageat their outer ends with the inner faces of the side walls of thereceiver, as clearly shown in Fig. 3. The said hubs are provided withcentrally-threaded openings to receive screws C C, extending into themthrough the said walls of the receiver, and support- It will be observedby reference to the said figure of the drawings that under thisconstruction two corresponding vertical spaces C C are formed betweenthe walls of the receiver and the opposite sides or faces of themagazine.

Vithin the magazine I locate a carrier K, which is transversely bowed,and pivotally attached at its rear end to the upper rear end of a bentcarrier-arm K, hung at its forward end on a pin K mounted in theabutment-block C before mentioned. This arm is bifurcated by a slot (seeFig. 9) receiving a liftinglever K the upper outer end of which engageswith a lug 70' formed upon the lower face of the carrier just in frontof the point where the same is pivotally connected with the arm K, whichis virtually divided into two members by the slot aforesaid. The saidlifting-lever K is bent at its forward end and hung upon the pin Kbetween the two members of the bifurcated carrier-arm K. At its extremeforward end the said lifting-lever is furnished with a shoulder k whichis engaged by a lifting-spring K located in a chamber 13 formed in thereceiver B at a point directly under the butt-end of the gun-barrel. Therear upper end of the carrier-arm K is extended, as at 70 to form abearing for the extreme rear end of the carrier, and prevent the samefrom being thrown upward beyond a substantially-horizontal position bythe lifting-lever K under the action of the lifting-spring K. hen thebox-magazine C is filled with cartridges, the carrier, carrier-arm andlifting-lever are depressed into the positions in which they are shownby broken lines in Fig. 1 of the drawings against the force of thelifting-spring K which, however, exerts a constant effort to lift thesaid parts and the cartridges as fast as the latter are removed until,finally, the carrier-arm and lever come to the positions in which theyare shown by full lines in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

The pin K in the abutment-block C forms a fulcrum for the bifurcatedoperating or base plate F, a plan view of which is given in Fig. 7 ofthe drawings.

It will be readily understood that the object of bifurcating the forwardend of this plate is to adapt it to embrace or straddle the box-magazinejust described. Toward its rear end it has formed in it a diagonal slotF, receiving a pin F which articulates or connects it with the finger oroperating lever E, sometimes designated the trigger-guard, from the factthat one of its functions is to guard the trigger I. The said operatingor finger lever is also bifurcated at its forward end, as shown in Fig.6, for the purpose of embracing or straddling the bifurcated forward endof the baseplate, which straddles or embraces the box-magazine, which isthus virtually embraced by the arms of the fingerlever, the arms ofwhich are sufliciently separated to receive both the base-plate andboxmagazine between them. The vertical spaces 0 0 formed on oppositesides of the said magazine, as before referred to, are provided forreceiving the ends of the said plate and lever and permitting them toplay up and down.

At its extreme rear the plate F is furnished with a horizontal slot Fthe sidewalls of which are undercut to receive the opposite ends of atrunnion G, located at the lower end of the recoil-block G, which latterinclines rearwardly and takes at its edges into inclined grooves formedto receive them in the opposite walls of the receiver. At its upper endthe said block carries a horizontally-arranged striking-pin G retainedin place by a transverse pin g, and engaged at its rear end by thehammer H, and engaging at its forward end with the firing-pin D carriedby the longitudinally-movable breech-bolt D.

A spring-pressed friction-pin F located in the extreme rear end of thebase or operating plate F and projecting beyond the same, ongages with abeveled bridge B formed at the forward end of the lower tang B which issecured within the receiver, whereby the said plate and the finger-leverare held in their closed positions. The breech-bolt D is circularly cutaway at its forward end upon its opposite faces, as at D to receive theforward ends of the bifurcated lever E, which are pivotally connectedwith the bolt by means of a transverse pin D as seen in Fig. 3. The boltis therefore positively moved back and forth by means of thefinger-lever. It is provided with an extractor D and with an ejector Dboth of which may be of any approved construction.

The hammer H, which may also be of any approved construction, is hungupon a horizontal pin H and furnished with a short link H engaged by thehammer-spring 1-1 The hammer is also constructed with two notches h andh, representing its cooked and halfcocked positions, and adapted to beengaged by a sear L, hung on the same center with the trigger I. Asear-spring L engages with the rear end of the sear for throwing theforward end thereof into the notches of the hammer.

When the gun is in its closed position the upper end of the recoil orlocking block G stands in line with the rear end'of the breechbolt andtakes the recoil of the same. In

opening the gun the first downward moveceive the pin F the opposite endsof which pass through the said slots and enter the ends of the lever.been moved into its full-open position, the lifting-lever K will at onceact to elevate the carrier K, and so bring the uppermost cartridge inthe box-magazine, or the only cartrid ge therein, into line with thelower edge of the bolt, so that when the bolt is moved forward again thecartridge will'be pushed forward into the gun-barrel A. Then when thefinger-lever is drawn back into its closed position the breech-bolt willbe moved forward into its full-closed position before the recoilblock islifted into position behind the rear end thereof. When the breech-bolt Dmoves back, its extractor D brings the spent shell with it, while theejector Dioperates to expel the shell from the arm after it has beenfully drawn out of the gun-barrel; but the operation of guns of thegeneral type under discussion is so well understood that itseemsunnecessary to detail the operation of the gun in hand Whenthe'breech-bolt has ti on some changes from the construction hereinshown and described may be made, and I would therefore have itunderstood that I do not limit myself to the exact construction hereinshown and described, but hold myself at liberty to make such changes andalterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fullydescribed my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a box-magazine breech-loading firearm, the combination with thereceiver thereof, of a box-magazine located therein and including at itsforward end an abutment block, a carrier located in the said magazine, acarrier-arm hung by its forward end upon a pivot mounted in the saidblock, and having the rear end of the carrier attached to its rear end,a lifting-lever hung by its forward end on the same pivot, and engagingat its rear end with the under face of the carrier at a point in frontof the attachment of the same to the carrierarm, and a spring engagingwith the lifting-lever for lifting the same and hence the carrier andcarrier-arm, substantially as described.

2. In a box-magazine breech-loading firearm, the combination with thereceiver thereof, of a box-magazine including an abutment block locatedin the forward end thereof a carrier, means for operating the same,pivotally mounted in the said block, a longitudinally movablebreech-bolt, a recoil-block for locking the same in its closed position,a fingerlever bifurcated to embrace the box-magazinc, and connected withthe breech-bolt for actuating the same, and a base or operating platehung at its forward end bya pivot passing through the said abutmentblock, bifurcated to embrace the box-1nagazine, and having its rear endarticulated with the fingerlever and the lower end of the recoil-block,substantially as described.

3. In a box magazine breech-loading firearm, the combination with thereceiver thereof, of a box magazine, a base or operating plate hung atits forward end, which is bifurcated to embrace the magazine, anoperating or finger-lever articulated with the rear end of the saidplate, and bifurcated to embrace the magazine, a breech-bolt connectedwith i the said finger-lever, and a locking or recoilblock,substantially as set forth.

4:. In a box magazine breech-loading firearm, the combination with thereceiver thereof, of a box magazine located therein with spaces betweenit and the side walls of the receiver, a base or operating platepivotally hung-at its forward end, which is bifurcated to embrace themagazine, a fin ger-lever articulated with the rear end of the saidplate, and bifurcated to embrace the operating-plate and magazine andextending into the said spaces, a breech-bolt connected with the saidlever, and a looking or recoil block, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

THOMAS G. BENNETT. Witnesses G. E. OoDsoN, A. WV. HooPER.

